They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.

They had pistols in their hands.

They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.

They had chosen this night purposely.

They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.

They had for cover both darkness and a summer storm.

They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.

They had never seen a tultul but they had heard about it from their fathers ''.

They had fought from caves, and the marines resorted to burning them out.

They couldn't have much dough, but then none of the freight-bums Feathertop rolled had much.

They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.

They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.

They thought of themselves, to use Jefferson's words, as `` the Argonauts '' who had lived in `` the Heroic Age ''.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

They look as if they had been sculptured with an unsharpened chisel.

They had watered their stock at immense profit, then had raised the price of coal fifty cents a ton, netting themselves another $20,000,000 in annual profit.

They had lost twice with the radical Bryan, and were having no part of Hearst, whom they considered more radical than Bryan.

They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.

They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.

They had other topics of conversation, besides their news from courts and fairs, which were of interest to Othon, the builder of castles in Wales and churches in his native country.

They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.

They do not understand how a small magazine with no advertising and no newsstand sale could have achieved such a following.

They are also one of three teams to win the treble and the Intercontinental Cup in the same season / calendar year ; This was achieved in the 1971 – 72 season.

They investigate consciousness, levels of truth, whether reality is ultimately empty, and how enlightenment is to be achieved.

They both viewed the work of British landscape artists John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, which confirmed to their belief that their style of open air painting gave the truest depiction of light and atmosphere, an effect that they felt could not be achieved in the studio alone.

They achieved the same distinction of a simultaneous No. 1 album and No. 1 single in the United Kingdom.

They may view the occult as being anything supernatural or paranormal which is not achieved by or through God ( as defined by those religious denominations ), and is therefore the work of an opposing and malevolent entity.

They achieved this in about 1777.

They have successfully transferred a complex set of quantum data with full transmission integrity achieved.

They can also be doped between the C < sub > 60 </ sub > molecules in the fullerene solid, rendering it superconductive at temperatures below 8 K. Samarium doping of iron-based superconductors – the most recent class of high-temperature superconductors – allows to enhance their transition temperature to 56 K, which is the highest value achieved so far in this series.

They achieved the development of a permanent administrative system based on a class of public officials answerable to the crown.

They achieved several pop / rap hits during the dance-club cultural boom era of the early 1980s, particularly in the UK, where they still enjoy a strong fan following today.

They achieved commercial success with singles that fused pop craftsmanship with rapid-fire punk energy.

They achieved this through their involvement as match organisers of the United South of England Eleven which played six matches in the 1872 season including games in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Grace's first visit to Scotland.

They achieved this success in large part due to their amazing horse archer s.

They performed formal listening tests to verify the 24kbit / s Delta Modulator achieved full voice quality with no discernable degradation as compared to a high quality phone line or the standard 64kbit / s µ-law Companded PCM.

They never achieved any form of national unity beyond short, dynastic rules at the height of the Greek classical period.

They tend to feature a resourceful character struggling against incredible odds, which may involve life-threatening situations, an evil villain, and / or being pursued, with victory achieved at the end after difficult physical efforts and violence.

They quickly established a fort there, and with time a community sprang up and achieved importance as port of call, missionary base and a trading centre.

They achieved this by bottling the wine before the initial fermentation had ended.

They were the fastest vessels in the Finnish Navy ; they regularly achieved speeds of 35 knots, and 37. 3 knots during sea trials.

They thus briefly achieved the best possible career offensive percentage in every category, including some esoteric categories such as " runs batted in per received pitch " ( 4. 000 ).

They achieved a weight of 1, 360Kg.

They achieved their first winning record in 14 seasons and clinched their first playoff spot since 1997.

They achieved this honour after supporting Zeus in the war against the Titans along with their mother.